"Seeds can be big and small, round and pointy, and all sorts of colors. But they all have one thing in common--inside waits a new plant life, waiting to emerge! This lush journey through an entire year follows seeds that bloom in the very beginning of spring, all the way through ones that sprout in winter. This jacketed companion picture book to What Will Hatch? features all kinds of seeds, from flowers and trees to fruits and vegetables. Along with lyrical text and beautiful illustrations, the book includes 4 pull-out gate-folds and fascinating back matter about plants!"-- - (Baker & Taylor)

"Seeds can be big or small, round or pointy, and all sorts of colors. They can become flowers, trees, fruits, or vegetables, and they grow all times of year, during spring, summer, fall, and winter. But all seeds have one thing in common--inside each is a new plant life waiting to emerge. What kind of plant will bloom? Wait and see what will grow! This jacketed companion picture book to What Will Hatch? features all kinds of seeds, from flowers and trees to fruits and vegetables. Along with lyrical text and beautiful illustrations, the book includes four pull-out gate-folds and fascinating back matter about plants!"-- - (Baker & Taylor)

Presents different kinds of seeds and the vegetables, fruits, trees, and flowers they grow into, which can be found under the flaps. - (Baker & Taylor)

A companion to What Will Hatch? implements four pull-out gatefolds in a picture book introduction to seeds and how they change and grow throughout the seasons. - (Baker & Taylor)

* "An enchanting vision." --Publishers Weekly, starred review

From the team behind the gorgeous What Will Hatch? comes a companion book all about seeds and the plants that grow from them--and featuring four pull-out gatefolds.

Seeds can be big or small, round or pointy, and all sorts of colors. They can become flowers, trees, fruits, or vegetables, and they sprout all times of year, during spring, summer, fall, and winter.

But all seeds have one thing in common--inside each is a new plant life waiting to emerge. What kind of plant will bloom? Wait and see what will grow!

Including four gorgeous pull-out gatefolds, this lyrical and stunningly illustrated book includes fun facts about starting a garden.

Awards for What Will Grow?
Texas 2 x 2 List
Kansas NEA Reading Circle
Blue Crab Honor Award Book, Maryland
Wisconsin Cooperative CBC Choice List

From the team behind the gorgeous What Will Hatch? comes a jacketed companion book, all about seeds and the plants that grow from them--and featuring four pull-out gatefolds. - (McMillan Palgrave)

Jennifer Ward and Susie Ghahremani are the team behind Bank Street Book of the Year What Will Hatch? and the popular parenting book I Love Dirt!: 52 Activities to Help You and Your Child Discover the Wonders of Nature, which has been featured in Parenting and Real Simple magazines and on NPR.

Jennifer Ward has authored several picture books, including her recent Feathers and Hair: What Animals Wear and Mama Built a Little Nest. Jennifer currently lives in southern Illinois, where she writes full-time.

www.jenniferwardbooks.com

Susie Ghahremani is an award-winning illustrator, exhibiting artist, and designer of the popular and whimsically illustrated gift brand boygirlparty®. She is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and she lives in Southern California.

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Instagram: @boygirlparty

Booklist Reviews

In this appealing, botanical companion book to What Will Hatch? (2013), Ward and Ghahremani explore what grows from seeds. Each double-page spread begins with a few descriptive, rhyming words on the left side, followed by the question "What will grow?" The answer appears on the right-hand page, and four of these are gatefolds opening upward, downward, or outward to reveal dramatically larger scenes. While most of the simply worded clues work well, "Flowery Fruit. / Orange Root" may confuse kids, since few would think of carrots as having flowers or fruit. Still, the downward-opening flap in this section, revealing the carrots growing below ground level, is one of the most beautiful and effective in the book. Featuring rounded, simplified botanical forms, the book's decorative gouache paintings are playful and satisfying. The back matter includes a two-page section of how-to directions for planting the 12 seeds mentioned (acorn/oak, apple, carrot, dandelion, lettuce, milkweed, pea, pumpkin, sunflower, pine, radish, tomato) and another that shows four stages of plant growth. A satisfying, interactive picture book for reading aloud. Copyright 2016 Booklist Reviews.

Publishers Weekly Reviews

In a quietly lovely follow-up to 2013's What Will Hatch? Ward repeats the question of the title as she describes a dozen varieties of seeds and the plants and trees they grow into. "Roly, round./ Rain-soaked ground./ What will grow?/ Peas," sShe begins as a yellow worm peers at pea plants snaking up a trellis. Ghahremani's art is playful yet refined, and the soft textures of the wood she paints on bring warmth to vignettes of dandelion-laden meadows, pumpkins stalked by a fox, and frosty winter fields. Well-integrated gatefolds add drama to some scenes, opening vertically to accommodate towering sunflowers or subterranean carrots ("Flowery fruit./ Orange root"). It's an enchanting vision of how strikingly different seeds and plants can be, and closing notes explain how and when to plant all 12 types of seeds. Ages 3–6. Agent: Stefanie Von Borstel, Full Circle Literary. (Feb.)

School Library Journal Reviews

PreS—This bucolic companion to Ward's What Will Hatch? captures the magic and excitement of planting a garden and waiting for it to bloom. In simple rhyming couplets, Ward highlights seeds of all shapes and sizes, including sunflower seeds ("Stripy black./Crunchy snack.") and dandelion seeds ("Fluffy, white./Taking flight."). Each short verse is followed by the question, "What will grow?" The sunflowers and dandelions flourish beside peas, lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, pumpkins, radishes, and milkweed, along with apple, oak, and pine trees. Ghahremani's striking images, replete with light and texture, are painted with gouache on wood and feature whimsical hand-lettering. The opening pages show "roly, round" peas thriving against a background of soft greens and tans while shining raindrops fall gently to the ground. Woodland creatures like rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, birds, and even a fox appear among the verdant greenery in each spread. Four gatefold illustrations will appeal to children's sense of wonder, and informative back matter instructs aspiring gardeners on when and how to sow the showcased seeds. VERDICT Pair this tranquil snapshot of plant life with Elly MacKay's If You Hold a Seed or Julie Fogliano's And Then It's Spring, and encourage young readers to get outside to do some planting of their own.—Linda L. Walkins, Saint Joseph Preparatory High School, Boston. Copyright 2016 School Library Journal.